The Primordial Sacrificial Altar.
The year-long legion tournament drew to a close, and Qi Sheng withdrew his gaze from its rankings.
In this tournament, the First Against the Tide Legion had won the championship by an overwhelming margin.
The rewards were a Player-system battle formation on a hundred-million-member scale, along with one hundred thousand sacrificial power for each member.
But in the eyes of many Against the Tide players, the glory of this tournament outweighed the rewards.
Before this, there had never been a definitive answer to which Against the Tide legion was strongest.
But a year of fighting and strategic contests had provided an indisputable answer.
The standout among them was the returning commander of the First Legion: Bei Jiang.
An old blade that had lain dormant for ages was drawn at last, its edge shaking the Player Faction.
In just half a year, with his unrivaled art of chessboard warfare, he had led the First Legion from outside the top hundred in a sweeping comeback, taking the top spot in the tournament.
During those six months, Bei Jiang had never stopped honing his own art of command.
He incorporated the various Life Souls of the Player system, including Reflection, Haina, and Good Fortune, into his black-and-white chessboard warfare framework.
The Reflection Life Soul perfected the channels for resonance between the entire army's wills, the Haina Life Soul raised the limit on battlefield energy capture, and the Good Fortune Life Soul completed the fortune calculations behind his placement of pieces... the fusion of multiple systems pushed his command capabilities beyond their former ceiling.
Based on Bei Jiang's performance over those six months, many research enthusiasts on the forum predicted that this newbie would lead the First Against the Tide Legion to the pinnacle of the Star Tournament and become